The British Institute of Human Rights has released an online tool to provide information about human rights and enable the user to identify human rights violations when they occur. The tool is especially useful for those with mental health issues or limited mental capacity, as well as their families, carers and formal advocates.

The recent refugee crisis has put many OECD countries under considerable pressure to accommodate and integrate large numbers of refugees. Refugee students are a particularly vulnerable group due to their forced displacement, but their needs are not always met byeducation systems, which can hinder the integration potential of these students. This poses considerable challenges as the integration of refugee students in education systems is important for their academic outcomes as well as their social and emotional well-being.

Within the project of First Technical School Kragujevac, Serbia - Project Based Learning as a part of contemporary teaching we have made this handbook that may concern all secondary school teachers who are interested in improving their work.

We would like to share our experience acquired from our job shadowing activities in Italy and to encourage our colleagues to apply project based learning. Our students liked the project based learning classes, they were more active in studying and that is why we hereby present two examples of our classes.

In the past two years, professionals of the Government Office of Békés County and its partner organisations - Alfaképző KISOSZ Advocacy and Training Association and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Békés County - have been studying best practices and methods applied in European countries for improving national employability opportunities of young adults within the frames of the project entitled 'YES (Young Employment Start) - European best practices for youth employment.

The purpose of this overview is to contribute to the formation of a common language and understanding of the concept of prior learning and what it means to recognise prior learning across all professional fields that deal with adult competences.

The overview is based on a broad, development-oriented approach of recognising prior learning, and cases have also been included to serve as practical examples.